Publication date
2015-07-12
Usage CC0 1.0 Universal
Topics
Tor, Bitcoin, drugs, Silk Road, Evolution, Agora, black-markets, dark net markets
Contributor
Gwern Branwen
Language
English
Dark Net Markets (DNM) are online markets typically hosted as Tor hidden services whose users transact in Bitcoin or other cryptocoins, usually for drugs or other illegal/regulated goods; the most famous DNM was Silk Road 1, which pioneered the business model.
From 2013-2015, I scraped/mirrored on a weekly or daily basis all existing English-language DNMs as part of my research into their usage, lifetimes/characteristics, & legal riskiness; in addition, I made or obtained copies of as many other datasets related to the DNMs as I could.
All this data has been publicly released as a single 52GB archive covering 89 DNMs & 37+ related forums, representing <4,438 mirrors weighing ~1.6TB of raw data.
For detailed documentation on the contents, interpretation, and technical methods behind the scrapes, please see:
https://www.gwern.net/DNM%20archives
From 2013-2015, I scraped/mirrored on a weekly or daily basis all existing English-language DNMs as part of my research into their usage, lifetimes/characteristics, & legal riskiness; in addition, I made or obtained copies of as many other datasets related to the DNMs as I could.
All this data has been publicly released as a single 52GB archive covering 89 DNMs & 37+ related forums, representing <4,438 mirrors weighing ~1.6TB of raw data.
For detailed documentation on the contents, interpretation, and technical methods behind the scrapes, please see:
https://www.gwern.net/DNM%20archives
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